Connecting the drive and getting started, Connecting the drive – Western Digital My Passport Ultra Metal User Manual User Manual
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MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED
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Connecting the Drive and Getting Started
This chapter provides instructions for connecting the drive and installing the WD Drive
Utilities, WD Security, and WD SmartWare software on your computer. It includes the
following topics:
Connecting the Drive
Getting Started with the WD Software
Connecting the Drive
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Turn on your computer.
2.
Connect the drive to your computer as shown in Figure 3.
3.
Verify that the drive appears in your computer’s file management utility listing.
4.
If a Found New Hardware screen appears, click Cancel to close it. The WD software
installs the proper driver for your drive.
Your My Passport drive is now ready to use as an external storage device. You can
enhance its capabilities by installing the WD software that is on the drive:
WD Drive Utilities
WD Security
WD SmartWare
Figure 3. Connecting the My Passport Drive
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